Chapter 11
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Genma rolled the senbon to the opposite side of his mouth lazily while staring at the two jounin across from him. One having a very annoyed look on her face as her hands fisted at her sides while the other person stuffed his hands in his pockets and leaned his wieght onto the heels of his feet in a relaxed manner.
Blinking, the senbon weilder shook out of his momentary daze. "I'm sorry, what was that?"
Anko glared harshly at him and took a threatening step toward him. "Don't make me kill you, I am so very tempted at the moment." she growled, Genma retreated half a step. "This is the last time we will explain it, got it?"
The senbon weilder nodded. "Alright, alright. Don't blow a fuse."
"We just need to form a team and head to the Hokage's office. Since Tsunade feels something is brewing, we want to send out a scouting team as back-up after an ANBU dispatch team." Kakashi explained slowly.
Genma scratched the back of his head thoughtfully before glancing back at the Copy nin. "Hmm, do you think she would do that though? I mean, if she wanted to send out an ANBU team to scout before us, then wouldn't she want to send out as less as possible?"
"Why wou - ....Oh, okay, to keep strong shinobi handy. Well, then she can just send out a few. I don't care, I just need to get out of the fucking village for a little while." Anko said as she crossed her arms. Genma's attention was immediatly drawn to her busty chest, only to frown as he saw the absence of her normal fishnet.
"What?" Anko snapped.
"N-nothing! I was just thinking that...that I had better go." Genma said quickly and laughed nervously.
Kakashi rolled his one exposed eye. Genma was usually cocky and confident when staring at women's assets. Up against Anko though, he seemed to know what not to do. Smirking, the silver-haired jounin pictured the brunette getting twisted into odd postitions of torture from Anko's snakes as she attempted to kill him for staring at her chest.
Knowing her, she would want to drag it out as long and as painful as possible.
Still....Kakashi frowned and glanced over at the woman beside him, he didn't like Genma staring at her like she was something to eat. It rubbed him the wrong way, and Kakashi found himself wishing Anko would punch the man through the ground. She might not have the strength of Tsunade or Sakura, but it was still impressive. Strong enough to make him tuck tail and submit if she got to pissed off.
"Look, will you just agree to it or do you want me to cut you right here, right now?" Anko threatened hotly and drew a kunai from her pocket for emphasis.
Kakashi eyed the weapon curiously. Just how the hell did she hide those things? Point taken she was a kunoichi but still, where exactly did she keep it concealed before he gave her the pants last night? Mulling over it a few seconds more, a slightly perverted grin peaked the corner of his lips. Oh, she had places to hide them alright. And he was willing to bet she could hide as many weapons on her chest as he carried on his entire person.
"Geez, alright woman. I'll do it." Genma sighed and had the look of a man roped into signing a death contract.
Anko gave him her best cheshire grin. "Good choice." she said in a velvety voice.
"One one condition."
The grin was wiped away as fast as it had appeared. She frowned crossly at him, and Kakashi fought the urge to laugh.
"What." she ground out.
Genam smiled coyly at her. Anko wasn't the only one frowning now as Kakashi removed his hands from his pockets and folded them over his chest, pinning the senbon weilding jounin with a glare.
"You. Me. One date, no weapons." Genma answered.
Kakashi almost snorted outloud. Like Anko would ever go to a date without wea-....
A smile spread across Anko's features as she blinked at the brunette. Kakashi stared with one slightly widened eye.
"A date with you, Genma?" Anko said in a sultry voice and moved a little closer to him.
From where Kakashi was standing, he could see Genma gulp.
"Is that a promise?" she asked as she trailed a finger up and down his chest.
The silver haired jounin's eye narrowed to a slit and he dipped his head slightly. To a passer-by it would look like Kakashi was about to impale a kunai into someone's throat. That someone belonging to the brunette across from him.
Genma gave a cocky laugh and quirked his brow at the female. "Of course it's a promise." He leaned in close to her and Kakashi rolled his eye.
His whisper was loud enough for the sharingan user to hear. "As sexy as those clothes look on you now, Anko, I would be willing to bet anything they would look better on my bedroom floor."
......What the fuck.
Kakashi took a step toward the two jounins and was about to say something along the lines of, 'As nice as that may sound, we still have others to speak with.' or maybe, 'You know what else would look better on your bedroom floor? Your limbs and maybe some blood.' However, Anko beat him to it as she pressed closer to Genma.
The silver haired jounin froze in his steps. Genma's face paled dramatically and he began stuttering like a baboon. Tilting his head to the side, Kakashi watched as Anko smiled dangerously and looked up at the man before her.
A cloud passed over the sun at that precise moment and shined down at the trio. The light hit them just perfectly, and the slightest glint of light briefly flashed, immediatly catching Kakashi's attention. As his gaze settled on the distraction, he barely contained the wince. Retreating half a step, he watched in half amusement, half pity, as Genma sweated bullets with a kunai pressed between his legs.
"H-h-h-hey now A-Anko! I'm sorry, I d-d-didn't mean anything b-by..." his voice jumped a few octaves as the blade pressed harder. "F-fuck! It was a j-joke! I'm sorry!"
Anko smiled leisurely at him, as if nothing was happening. As if she wasn't holding a very sharp and lethal weapon to the man's groin.
"Aw, does that mean no date, Genma-kun?" she purred.
He shook his head furiously. "Just forget it! I was kidding!" he answered quickly.
Anko mock pouted. "How sad, and here I thought I was going to have a little fun."
The double meaning was not missed by either of the males. Personally, Genma didn't find getting castrated in the middle of the street much fun.
"L-look, just put that thing down! I'll join the mission thing dammit!"
Smiling happily, the kunoichi withdrew and pocketed her weapon. "Alright then. We'll see you at the Hokage's office this evening."
Genma sighed heavily and took in a few shaky breaths before glancing at Kakashi, who was standing in a more relaxed manner, effectively hiding his amusement.
"Careful, Kakashi-san. She's a fucking minx."
Before Anko could draw her weapon again, Genma 'poofed' away with a mocking smirk.
"Bastard." the spiky haired kunoichi growled.
Kakashi shrugged, silently agreeing. "Let's go. Raidou's apartment is closest."
Rolling her eyes, Anko hiked her pants up slightly and glared at them. "Alright fine, but first I need a belt."
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"Do you know which direction it came from?"
"From the way it was laying down when we discovered it, it seemed like it was heading from north, north-west. Close to the mountain ranges."
Kankurou nodded from his place leaning agains the wall. Matsuri scratched her chin and stared at the ceiling, contemplating the flight pattern of the fallen messenger bird.
"Kankurou-senpai?" she said suddenly.
"Hmm?"
She fixed her onyx eyes on him and frowned in thought. "If the bird was flying from north, north-west to here, then it came from Earth Country, right?"
Kankurou smirked at her. She was smart and quick. The other chuunins on the team hadn't guessed where the message was from, only that it was carrying a heavy seal. They hadn't even seen the Hidden Rock Village's insignia on the scroll, so Matsuri gathering that information from just the direction it had come from was impressive.
Still, he was curious as to why she hadn't thought it was one of the smaller villages' that lay in front of Earth Country's borders.
One of Matsuri's teammates, Yukio he believed his name was, snorted and rolled his burgundy colored eyes.
"I doubt it. That bird was clearly from the Hidden Rain Village, at the very least Grass." he scoffed and folded his arms over his chest.
Matsuri glared at the dark haired male beside her. "No, it wasn't."
Kankurou raised a brow at the team before him. Obviously there was a clash of ideals here, it seemed like there always had been between these two. By the way that Yukio shot down Matsuri's observation, though it was right, showed that he thought she inferior to him. Matsuri, being the determind Suna kunoichi she is, wouldn't be put down and bit back.
So what was the deal with the quiet one on the otherside of Matsuri? What was his name?.....Damn, he was the one that helped put the teams together, what was the kid's name? Kydo? Kisho? ...Ah! Kioshi, that was it. Well, he certainly fit his name. 'Quiet' definitely suieted him.
Yukio outright laughed at the kunoichi. "Oh? And what proof do you have to prove your theory? That the bird was a different color from Grass and Rain?"
"Not exactly." she snapped and jerked her head back to Kankurou. "Kankurou-senpai, the bird was relatively small wasn't it?" he nodded. "Birds from Earth Country are smaller than ones on flat land because their body mass isn't as big and doesn't affect the balance of the bird when flying on the high ranges." she glanced over at Yukio with a hard look. "That's how I know it was Earth Country. Grass and Rain have bigger birds. Also, Rain's messenger birds are lighter colored than the others. Grass too."
Kankurou's lips broke into a smile and he let forth a small chuckle. The offended and wounded expression Yukio wore made it look like the young man had just gotten slapped in the face. In a way he had, with words that is. Even the silent Kioshi was cracking a small grin and glancing over at Matsuri with his dark blueish-grey eyes.
"Alright." Kankurou called their attention, hiding his amusement. "Is there something more about the bird that needs to be reported, or anything else dealing with this subject?"
It was quiet for a moment before, surprisingly, Kioshi spoke up. His voice was low and steady, but soft. It held the undertones of someone strong.
"The bird, it died from exhaustion and dehydration. Wouldn't that mean that it flew a great distance? It didn't seem to have any destination at all and was flying hap-hazardly. If it did come from Earth Country, then why didn't someone in Grass or Rain stop it?"
"Maybe they didn't see it?" Matsuri guessed
"Considering the foliage that surrounds Grass and Rain, the bird must have been near invisible to the naked eye. This is desert and that thing stood out like a sore thumb, it was easy for us to see because the thing had no cover." answered Yukio, trying to soothe his bruised ego.
The older jounin nodded. "That's a good point. We'll mention that to the Kazekage." Kankurou pushed himself off the wall and went to the door. The team's sensei was sitting outside on a waiting bench, having been questioned previously, and was waiting patiently for it to be finished.
"Ryota-san, you can take your team and head back to the Cryptologist Tower. The scroll was delivered there last night, so it should be broken by now."
"Hai, Kankurou-sama."
Kankurou fought the urge to roll his eyes. The '-sama' had been pretty neat at first, giving him a high on superiority, but now it just got tiresome. Being referred to as that could make a person feel old sometimes, and he was only twenty! For God's sake, he missed just being called by his name, without the annoying suffix.
As the team filed out from the questioning room, Kankurou reached out and ruffled Matsuri's brown locks. She scrunched up her face and turned toward him with a grin as the others went on without her.
"You did good, Kid. I always knew you were a bright one." he gave her a lazy smile.
"I learned only from the best."
He chuckled. "You flatter me."
"Kankurou-senpai, I was talking about Gaara-sama."
The jounin frowned and rolled his dark eyes. "How sweet." he said sarcastically.
She laughed and rubbed the back of her neck. "I'm kidding. Of course you taught plenty, too."
"Damn right." he flicked her on the forehead and stepped around her before she could retaliate. "Now come on, I have a mission for you."
Immediatly forgetting about giving the jounin a kick in the shin for the forehead flick, Matsuri smiled brightly. "What kind of mission?"
"You are going to...." he waited and watched at he suspension ate at her.
"What? What? What am I going to do?" she asked impatiently.
Kankurou smirked. "Help me find Temari and Baki."
She deflated comically and glared lazily at him. "That's a cheap trick."
He shrugged. "It's a mission. Don't you want to see them?"
"Of course, but you can't just build it up like that and make me feel like I am about to go on a dangerous mission that requires only my type of skills." she grumbled.
He chuckeled. "Just think of it as a search and rescue mission, okay? Temari and Baki are trapped in a rogue ninja's cave and are being tortured for information and- "
"Okay, okay! Let's go then, I want to know what's in that message." she swiftly cut him off and smiled benignly at his lazy irratation.
Kankurou nodded and gestured for the chuunin to follow as he made his way out of the building and into the streets of Suna. With Matsuri and his tracking skills combined, it wouldn't take long to find them.
"Oh," Kankurou called over his shoulder as they walked down the busy streets of the village. Since it was mid-morning, the sun wasn't that hot and they weren't in danger of getting scorched by the heat rays. "Try to locate that Nara Shikamaru while you're at it."
"The Leaf shinobi?"
"That's the one."
She nodded and followed him as they jumped onto the dune shaped roofs of the village, following the flow of chakra they both found familier.
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Temari sat on one of the benches outside of the training grounds. Having just completed a sparring match with the Leaf shinobi, Shikamaru, she was now polishing her fan the best she could with the edge of her black attire. Said male was leaning back against the fence behind them, that marked off the train grounds, eyes closed and hands folded behind his head.
The kunoichi glanced over at him and smirked. With a quick movement she smacked him on the back of his head the best she could, successfully jerking him foreward and out of his half-asleep state. He turned his lazy glare at her and frowned deeper.
"That's for putting a scratch on my fan." she clarified as her grin stretched.
"You are more troublesome than my mother sometimes." he mumbled and yawned, stretching his arms over his head.
She snorted. "What a pleasant thing to say about the woman that gave you life, Nara."
He shrugged.
Rolling her shoulders, Temari stood and strapped her fan onto her back once more and turned expectantly toward the lazy male.
"Come on, we have to report back to Gaara about the chuunin exams."
"Yeah, yeah. I'm coming." he yawned again and stood from his seat.
They turned from the grounds and began making their way back to the main part of the village. Shikamaru set a lazy, and tired pace with his hands clasped behind his neck while Temari walked beside him at a steady, easy gate.
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Jumping over the roofs of the village, Baki steadily made his way to the cryptologist's tower. Kankurou and Matsuri had found him not to long ago back at his apartment filling out reports for the upcoming chuunin exams, and digging through piles of papers dealing with political references. Sometimes he really regretted the day Gaara put him on as part of the council to take the place of the village traitor, Yura. Though he still got missions, he missed not having to worry about the politics involved in the village.
He honestly didn't see how Gaara did it.
Day after day filling out papers, signing papers, meeting with feudal lords, trading with neighboring countries, meeting with other council memebers and watching over the village every minute of every day. It took and honest, dedicated and over all strong man to handle it. And Gaara, only being nineteen, was doing a better job than anyone else coud have ever hoped to do.
Kankurou had said that a messenger bird was recovered, and was believed to be from the Hidden Rock Village. They had never really had much to do with Earth Country, so finding a scroll from them was something that had him on edge. Matsuri had even put in that it seemed it had no destination at all. That it was just flying to be flying.
Then why have a message if it had no destination? What if what was in the scroll was valuable information? That could explain the advanced sealing technique....
Baki sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose with his thumb and forefinger. He really needed to get some sleep soon, or he was going to end up with black rings around his own eyes. And for some reason, he didn't think Gaara would find it to amusing.
Firstly, SORRY FOR NO GAARA APPEARANCE!! He is kind of occupied with the messenger scroll thing at the moment. ^_^
Yeah, that took forever to get out. An entire week. What a shame. I have exams next week, so I have been sort of occupied with studying. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I had fun writing because there is a lot of humour in this chapter and that is just my specialty. I love to make people laugh. Okay, now on to the reviews that I recieved!
greensapphire - Sorry about there not being no KakashiAnko in the last chapter, but there was some in this one! Along with torturing poor Genma! Hehe. Yeah, poor Sakura, but I am not giving anything away because she has a big part coming up. I'm sorry about it depressing you to, but you can laugh now, Genma almost got neutred. In the street! Yeah, I like Yugao to. There are hardly any stories whatsoever with her in them. And if there is, they usually make her name different because they can't find 'Uzuki Yugao'. Don't worry, I thought Anko and Yugao were related to! The purple hair is just so uncanny! Haha. Yes, the sandsibs are the awsomest. I have to say they are my favorite out of all the characters. So I guess that means I'm Suna through and through! Haha! Thanks for the review.
Dark Duchess and Shadow Queen - Yay! Your are happy! Me too! I love Gaara too, secretly, I snuck him from Kishimoto-sama and keep him my room! Mwhahaha! Ahem...Anyway...Haha, well I hoped you finished your homework! Yes, Temari was in this chapter and she will be in the next one to! Yippee! Thank you for you review!
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